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msongs

(67,371 posts) Tue Mar 1, 2022, 02:38 PM Mar 2022

missing in action, real news. media is all blabbering talking heads this morning...

switching around european channels and those in the usa its all talking heads and barely a whiff of what is going on in ukraine

msnbc looks more like the view. what's next recipes?

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missing in action, real news. media is all blabbering talking heads this morning... (Original Post) msongs Mar 2022 OP

Their ratings numbers must have come in leftstreet Mar 2022 #1

I only watch BBC coverage now, they have reporters with live reports all over Ukraine and the region Shanti Shanti Shanti Mar 2022 #2

I agree. US cable news is just really bad. Claustrum Mar 2022 #3

leftstreet

(36,101 posts)

1. Their ratings numbers must have come in

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 02:49 PM

Mar 2022

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)

2. I only watch BBC coverage now, they have reporters with live reports all over Ukraine and the region

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:10 PM

Mar 2022

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)

3. I agree. US cable news is just really bad.

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:20 PM

Mar 2022

Even CNN international is way better than CNN in US. I grew up watching news that is just giving us what incidents happened that day without having a talking head there telling us what's important and who's doing wrong/badly. Though, admittedly, I grew up outside of US.

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